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11%OFFCarole McGranahan - Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War - 9780822347712 - V9780822347712
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Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War

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Description for Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War Paperback. Argues that some histories, including Tibetans armed resistance against the Chinese, are arrested, deliberately left untold until some future moment when changed circumstances favor their telling. Num Pages: 328 pages, 36 photographs, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
In the 1950s, thousands of ordinary Tibetans rose up to defend their country and religion against Chinese troops. Their citizen army fought through 1974 with covert support from the Tibetan exile government and the governments of India, Nepal, and the United States. Decades later, the story of this resistance is only beginning to be told and has not yet entered the annals of Tibetan national history. In Arrested Histories, the anthropologist and historian Carole McGranahan shows how and why histories of this resistance army are “arrested” and explains the ensuing repercussions for the Tibetan refugee community.

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Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822347712
SKU
V9780822347712
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About Carole McGranahan
Carole McGranahan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is a co-editor of Imperial Formations.

Reviews for Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War
“McGranahan has patiently interviewed elderly survivors of the Tibetan guerilla resistance to Chinese rule, which lasted from 1956 to 1974. . . . As an anthropologist, McGranahan attends chiefly to the politics of memory and forgetting, the formation of identity, and the construction of gender, leaving the military and political histories of the forgotten war, as she says, a work ... Read more

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